Biology:Anthidium cingulatum

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Short description: Species of bee

Anthidium cingulatum
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megachilidae
Genus: Anthidium
Species:
A. cingulatum
Binomial name
Anthidium cingulatum
Latreille, 1809
Synonyms[1]
  • Anthidium oraniense Lepeletier, 1841
  • Anthidium dissectum Eversmann, 1852
  • Anthidium imitator Smith, 1879
  • Anthidium rufispinum Costa, 1883

Anthidium cingulatum is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees which is found in south and central Europe east to Siberia and south to North Africa and Iran.[2] It feeds on the nectar and pollen of plants in the families Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Lamiaceae[2] while males have been recorded as pollinators of the lizard orchid Himantoglossum caprinum in Crimea.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2180076 entry